Are taxis available at Pleasure Pier?

[loricfam]

We are taking our first cruise out of Galveston in a week. We are flying in a day early so I thought DH and I would take our kids, 12 and 9, to Pleasure Pier for the afternoon and evening and have dinner out. We will not have a car so we'll need a taxi. Our hotel is the Hampton, near Seawall Blvd and 60th. Google map shows it to be 8 minutes/3.2 mile drive to Pleasure Pier. I figure it will be easy enough to call a cab from the hotel to get to Pleasure Pier. But when we leave Pleasure Pier, are there taxis available and waiting? Or do we need to call one? How much do you think the cab fare is?

 

Are there other things near Pleasure Pier that you would recommend checking out? Since we won't have a car I'm looking for things in walking distance to the pier. I've heard about the Pink Tram so was thinking about that. Any recommendations for dinner in walking distance to Pleasure Pier that would be near a taxi stand so we can get back to our hotel after dinner?

[ssb]

We are taking our first cruise out of Galveston in a week. We are flying in a day early so I thought DH and I would take our kids, 12 and 9, to Pleasure Pier for the afternoon and evening and have dinner out. We will not have a car so we'll need a taxi. Our hotel is the Hampton, near Seawall Blvd and 60th. Google map shows it to be 8 minutes/3.2 mile drive to Pleasure Pier. I figure it will be easy enough to call a cab from the hotel to get to Pleasure Pier. But when we leave Pleasure Pier, are there taxis available and waiting? Or do we need to call one? How much do you think the cab fare is?

 

Are there other things near Pleasure Pier that you would recommend checking out? Since we won't have a car I'm looking for things in walking distance to the pier. I've heard about the Pink Tram so was thinking about that. Any recommendations for dinner in walking distance to Pleasure Pier that would be near a taxi stand so we can get back to our hotel after dinner?

 

there may be , but you can always get cell # from first taxi driver and he will come back to pick you up. Chick filet, fish tales , Miller cafe ,bubba Gump , spot , Joe's Crab Shack , queens BBQ and more are in walking distance.

Edited March 10, 2016 by ssb

[ssb]

Things to do but not necessarily walking distance:

Moody gardens.com (massive )

Schlterbaun Waterpark (large )

Galvestonhistory.org (lots) and tour

Children's museum

Moodymansion

railroad museum

Oil industry and drilling museum

Submarine and destroyer at park

Airplanes museum

Short films on Pirates,immigration and 1900 Great Storm

...at maritime museum

Port tour and dolphin watch

ELISSA tall ship

1894 Grand Opera House Tour or Performance

Bryan Museum largest historical museum in southeastern US

Pleasure Pier

Shell Shop on Gulf Pier

Sailing at Scout Camp

Surfing Lessons

Candy Making on Strand LaKings

Turtle Rescue Farm

Bishops Palace

Galveston has Largest # Victorian Homes

Galveston has 2nd largest Preservation Society in US

Rosenberg Historical Library and Immigration resourse

32 miles of beach

Fishing

Flower Gardens a scuba trip

Free cruise on ferry rides

NASA Spacecraft Center

[loricfam]

Thank you!

[Txfirefighter92]

The Spot is up the road from Pleasure Pier. It is delicious and reasonably priced.

 

 

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[loricfam]

thanks!

[ssb]

thanks!

 

Spot has four bars and then a family restaurant also.

A large palapa bar upstairs called Rum Shack .